Camp Meeting Straight Ahead!

Our Ohio District Camp Meeting begins July 30.  My wife and I are on location now and will stay for the duration of the camp, August 3.  We expect a “blowout” time this year with Doug Klinedinst, Greg Godwin and Anthony Mangun.  Robert Trapani will teach Tuesday-Friday, and Barb Keller will direct the music program.  I don’t know if we can house the crowd we will have on Friday night, but that’s a good problem. 

We have just installed a new sound board, new speakers and some other new components.  They tell me that the sound has never been better in the old tabernacle.  This tabernacle has some history…Billy Cole received the Holy Ghost there and many preachers and missionaries received their call at the tabernacle altars.  Now upgraded and facelifted, we believe that the anointing still rests there.  If you want to know more about it, buy the book “Out of the Heartland:  A History of the Ohio District UPCI.”  (Available at www.ohioupci.com)  These books will be on sale at a reduced price to those who come to the camp meeting.

 Senior High camp is finishing up as I write this entry.  The campers have been at Dennison University this summer instead of Buckeye Lake.  It’s been a great week with great facilities (however, the same old complaints about the food!).  The one thing that the young people have really enjoyed has been the huge gymnasiums where they have been able to play basketball and volleyball in the best of conditions.  Wayne Francis has done an awesome job.  I thank God for a new generation coming on…a “dancing generation”…because they love the presence of God and the preaching of the truth as much as the older folks. 

It’s a great day to be a Buckeye!